evolution crashed with SIGSEGV in g_main_context_dispatch()

Bug #478624 reported by Worf
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This bug affects 5 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Evolution
Expired
Critical
evolution (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: evolution

Evolution crashes sometimes when refreshing (incoming mails e.g.) when either
1. ugrading from ubuntu 9.10 or
2. installing 9.10 and then importing backup: evolution backup.tar.gz

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Nov 8 20:07:01 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: evolution 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: evolution --component=mail
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_CH.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f88ab78a40c: mov 0x350(%rax),%rax
 PC (0x7f88ab78a40c) ok
 source "0x350(%rax)" (0x00000350) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: evolution
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 g_main_context_dispatch ()
 ?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_main_loop_run () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: evolution crashed with SIGSEGV in g_main_context_dispatch()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1918): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1918): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2018): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:1997): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (gnome-panel:1996): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -3 and height 24

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Worf (worf-inode) wrote :
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Worf (worf-inode) wrote :

Edit: correct point 1.:
1. ugrading TO ubuntu 9.10!

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Stacktrace.txt (retraced)

StacktraceTop:emfv_got_folder (
mail_msg_idle_cb () at mail-mt.c:502
g_main_context_dispatch ()
?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
g_main_loop_run () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : ThreadStacktrace.txt (retraced)
Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: removed: need-amd64-retrace
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

seems to be related to bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587874 ; linking the report.

Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
visibility: private → public
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Worf (worf-inode) wrote :

Imho not related to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587874
because Evolution freezes (and after some minutes chrases) only when manually going to "send/call mails",
not for example when initializing evolution.

Changed in evolution:
status: Unknown → New
Changed in evolution:
importance: Unknown → Critical
Changed in evolution:
status: New → Expired
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Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de) wrote :

9.10 is not longer supported
change status to invalid (see gnome - bugs)

Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Invalid
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